@justinskycak Yes! I had to convince my son when he was in elementary and middle school that he actually LOVED math, but hated math class. Big difference. He's almost 17 now and loves physics and algebra and wants to be an engineer.
When I got my masters at a large state university I tutored for the football team. They assigned me a player who needed “a little more help”... I asked him to write a paragraph about himself. Not a single correct & complete sentence. He read at the 3rd grade level. The worst part was that he was such a gentleman. All he wanted was to do work hard & be successful. But he failed out & went home, his dream crushed. he never knew “what he’d done wrong”. But the reason was in fact that he was such a lovely kid. And one of the best football players in the history of his HS. And no one wanted to crush his dream by failing him because he couldn’t read or write. All that time they told themselves they were being kind & doing him a favor. This was when I discovered the immense risk of perverse incentives.
I am old enough to remember the scandal of a politician publicly using a curse word. Not only is such speaking a regular part of their vernacular, but also they type it.
“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”
- General George Washington